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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

by Ambrose Bierce (Author), Ambrose Bierce (Author), S.T. Joshi (Editor), David E. Schultz (Editor)

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    Unabridged 2001

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Synopsis

A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, this dictionary offers 1600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Ambrose Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our failings and excesses to shine forth. This is the most extensively annotated edition of a work by Bierce ever published, and the first edition of The Devil's Dictionary to provide detailed bibliographical information for every entry.

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Format: Unabridged
 Pages: 440
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 31 Dec 2001
ISBN 10: 0820324019
ISBN 13: 9780820324012

Media Reviews

This carefully edited manuscript will add immeasurably to Bierce studies.

--Joseph B. McCullough University of Nevada-Las Vegas

This is a work of genuinely impressive scholarship and will undoubtedly become the authoritative text for Bierce's Devil's Dictionary.

--Thomas V. Quirk University of Missouri-Columbia

Splendidly produced.

--London Times Literary Supplement

Most readers and biographers have agreed with Schultz and Joshi that The Devil's Dictionary is 'quintessential Bierce.' For the serious student of Bierce's diabolical lexicon, their beautiful new edition . . . will be a delight.

--Sewanee Review

Bierce was America's first realist writer, but, unlike realism's later practitioners, he knew something about reality--it's really funny.

--P. J. O'Rourke

A compilation of all of Bierce's satirical definitions published over a forty-year period, this latest version of the Dictionary ('A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic') merits a wide readership both within and without the Academy ('A modern school where football is taught').

--American Literary Review
Author Bio
AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?) was one of nineteenth-century America's most renowned satirists. The author of short stories, essays, fables, poems, and sketches, he was a popular columnist and wrote for several San Francisco and London newspapers during his forty-year journalism career. DAVID E. SCHULTZ is a technical editor. He is coeditor, with S. T. Joshi, of both A Sole Survivor, a collection of Bierce autobiographical writings, and Lord of a Visible World, an autobiography-in-letters of H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. JOSHI is a freelance writer and editor. He is the editor of The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce and author of H. P. Lovecraft: A Life.